What's the plan then ?

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bluehelmet

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Having tried to catch up on all the latest Maiden news and rumours would I be right in thinking that the next part of the History of IM should be getting released in the next 18 months or so ? With Maiden England and Donington '92 to be included in some capacity as well as the usual interviews/feature length doc ?

Surely it would have to focus on a time frame of 1986-1992 ? Or up until Bruce left the band ?

There would obviously have to be some kind of tour to promote the release.

But with them having played several songs off SIT and SSOASS on the SBOT tour, could we perhaps expect to hear the band playing some songs off those albums which did not get played at the likes of Twickenham ?

I couldn't envisage them focusing mainly on NPFTD and FOTD tracks (as well as the usual smattering of classics)

Anybody else heard anything about plans for the next couple of years ?

I'm new here, so apologies if this is a repeat thread !!
 
Nobody mentioned that it's gonna be a "history" tour. I'm predicting something more in lines of Give Me Ed... tour, with well-known songs from all parts of their catalog.

I'm afraid that SIT and SSOASS are done for. They failed to do it during SBIT tour, it was a history tour, it was advertised as '84-'88, yet they included Revelations, RTTH, Trooper, FOTD, TNOTB..."classics" that are out of era and that took 5 spots. 5 spots that could've been filled with Caught Somewhere In Time, Infinite Dreams and Seventh Son + one more. (4 songs instead of 5, but similar time usage in setlist). Although SIT is my favourite album and SSOASS is in my top 3, i don't even dream of hearing gems from that period any more. Imagine this :

1. Churchill's Speech / Aces High
2. Two Minutes To Midnight
3. Moonchild
4. Can I Play With Madness
5. Wasted Years
6. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
7. Powerslave
8. Heaven Can Wait
9. Sea Of Madness
10. The Clairvoyant
11. Seventh Son Of The Seventh Son
Encore :
12. Blade Runner / Caught Somewhere In Time
13. Hallowed Be Thy Name
14. Iron Maiden

That would kick some serious ass.

Anyway, with all the success behind SBiT, and new record in general, and new tour, they can fill a 20.000 arena anywhere, and that's at least. In that audience, there is a large percentage wanting to hear classics. Because of that, '90-'93 revisited is out of question, and so is Blaze-era revisited.

Perhaps a setlist filled with better known "hits" from '90-'98 with standard classics could be valid. Tailgunner, NPFTD, Afraid To Shoot Strangers, Be Quick Or Be Dear, Fear Of The Dark, From Here To Eternity, Sign Of The Cross, Man On The Edge, Lord Of The Flies, Clansman, Futureal, Iron Maiden, Trooper, Hallowed...it would be justified by general metal fans, but not by older people who were into metal in '80s and want to hear '80s Maiden.

I would be pleased with that kind of setlist. But as i said, a general "random" setlist with stuff from all periods of their 35-year-old career is more probable.
 
Seems to me like they skipped the '90s and went straight to reunion era stuff for this tour. Maybe this is supposed to be separate and unrelated to the history tours though, IDK.
 
I seem to recall the justification was something like, "We like these songs. We want to play them, and as the largest metal act in the world, we do anything we want."
 
There really is no setlist they could put together that I would not like, some would certainly be better than others, but they are one of the few bands I like that have been around this long that did not have a spell of dreadful material.  The only thing I certainly do not want to see is a reapeat of any recent tours, SbiT was very cool, as was the original tours, but no need to do it again. 
 
I agree beerfan. Some on here think that when Maiden England is released on DVD, they'll only do songs up to that album. Here's what I think they might do: Release ME, Raising Hell, and Donnington Live on DVD and do a tour mainly covering stuff from the late 80's to 90's.
 
perhaps the only chance we might get to hear some of the lesser played songs off SIT and/or SSOASS could be the odd dream 'curve-ball' on the next tour then.

Hopeful (but unlikely) curve-ball candidates being -

Caught Somewhere In Time
Stranger In A Strange Land
Alexander The Great
Infinite Dreams
SSOASS

But I guess I won't hold my breath now !
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
I agree beerfan. Some on here think that when Maiden England is released on DVD, they'll only do songs up to that album. Here's what I think they might do: Release ME, Raising Hell, and Donnington Live on DVD and do a tour mainly covering stuff from the late 80's to 90's.
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Late 80s - surely that means SSOASS though ?

That is the only album they released in the late 80s after all.

A glimmer of hope !!
 
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